Russia's war against Ukraine houses, schools m hospitals and churches

 Washington Examiner:

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In the 14 days since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his soldiers to invade neighboring Ukraine, thousands of people have died, including pregnant mothers, infants, and the elderly. More than 2 million people have been forced out of their homes, fleeing with only what they could carry.

Russian rockets have ripped through residential buildings and sliced through schools, city squares, farmhouses, churches, and more. Thousands of people have been hurt with their bloodied body parts left in the streets to rot. In several cities and towns across Ukraine, people have run out of food and access to clean water. They have no heat or electricity, with nighttime temperatures dipping into the single digits.

At the meeting in Antalya, Turkey, between Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Kuleba said Lavrov lacked the power to negotiate even a 24-hour ceasefire.

"The broad narrative he conveyed to me is that they will continue their aggression until Ukraine meets their demands, and the least of these demands is surrender," Kuleba told reporters.

Lavrov stuck to Putin's original demands that included the "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly and falsely claimed that Ukraine's government is made up of Nazis and wants to replace the government with a pro-Putin one.

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The Russian claims of Nazis in the Ukraine government appear to be completely without evidence and look like a pretext for making war on civilians. 

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